IBM is dedicated to your growth as a professional and invests HEAVILY in your development. Most of my colleagues also have the ability to work remotely and the pay is good. Opportunities for growth abound. The company has a bright future and a bright past full of innovative tech that revolutionized many industries. Proud to be an IBMer!

Act more like adults and less like a gossiping high schooler. If you take care of your employees, they might be more inclined to stay, work hard and take care of the client. Spend your energy on shaping the hard workers so they can grow and succeed in their careers.

* Liberal vacation/sick day policy :
5 sick days off, 2 weeks vacation, 4 days personal choice holiday in addition to the observed holidays in your region.
* Free cloud account.
As a Cloud Support Engineer (in whatever functional block/technology domain), you will have the ability to provision infrastructure and lab things out for free. This means that you will have your own lab in the cloud to experiment and...

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Cons

* Zero career growth.
Your career will die here if you let it.
IBM loves to pretend that you have a future with them. They have its managers hold these things called 'Career Conversations', and these serve as just ways to fool you into thinking that they care about your career growth when in fact this is not the case. It's just to try and inspire hope in you and try and keep you around for another year or so....

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Advice to Management

Stop pretending that everything is alright. Your 'One Cloud One Support' policy is a joke. Your engineers hate working here, and it's all your fault.

Compensation, Work From Home, Vacation Time, Smart People, Great Training

Cons

Never feel fully secure in your role as IBM is either selling off parts of the business or sending down resource actions multiple times per year.

Advice to Management

Allow the different BUs to function more independently instead of making major decisions for brands you're not directly responsible for. Set a vision and stick to it. Don't move the goal posts every 6 months.